May 09, 2024 - Sale 2668

Sale 2668 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

BARBER (DATES UNKNOWN)

SUMMIT SHIRTS / AUSTIN REEDS. Gouache maquette. 1935.


22x15 inches, 59x38 cm.
Condition A-: minor tears, creases and pin holes at edges; small tear in lower text; small paper insert in lower left; pencil and gouache on thick paper.

An original maquette for a poster dated 1935. Summit Shirts were advertised as being made of preshrunk materials with non-fading colors and reinforced collars. Austin Reed was a British fashion retailer founded in 1900 by tailor Austin Leonard Reed; its flagship store on Regent street opened in 1911.